This paper aims to provide a counterweight to the omnipresent gloomy analyses of demographic change in Western societies. The central argument is that the strains and challenges which demographic change poses for different sub-orders of society can lead to a higher appreciation of the individual...

Using a framework that distinguishes short-term consumer preferences, individual reflective preferences and political preferences, we discuss from a constitutional economics perspective whether individuals find it in their common constitutional interest to endow representatives and bureaucrats...

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals' decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the reader -- Prologue: premises and problems -- Studying person and property in global perspective -- Force fields of persons and properties -- The emergence of the propertied self -- Early responses to the rise of the propertied self --...

General introduction : in search of the meaning of liberalism in a China confronting crisis / Gilles Campagnolo -- History of thought : contributions to the reception and adoption/adaption of western thought -- The reception of Kant in China / Bo Xu -- Yan Fu and Kaiping Mines : the meaning of...